Chapter 554: You Didn't Encounter Anything When You Came Back

She used the firewood previously collected from the Ge family to fence off a plot of land near the foot of the mountain in the freshwater area, released the chicks inside, casually pulled a cabbage from the vegetable patch, tore off the leaves, and let the chicks peck at them to eat.

This way, the chicks could move around the mountain, but could not enter the fields she planted.

After she finished these tasks with her mind and was just about to move forward again, she heard the sound of a car; turning around, she saw that the original shuttle bus had actually been repaired.

She casually flagged it down, showed her previous ticket after boarding, and was just about to sit on the hood again when she discovered there was an empty seat in the middle.

She didn't ask much and went straight over to sit down.

As soon as she sat down, the woman sitting by the window looked at her: "Are you Deputy Regiment Commander Fu's fiancée?"

Liu Chuxue turned her head to look: "Yes, who are you?"

That woman laughed: "My name is Ma Lijuan, and my husband is Deputy Regiment Commander Gong of the First Regiment."

Fu Yan Cheng had not mentioned anything about the First Regiment to her, so she only smiled and replied: "Hello, Sister-in-law Gong."

Ma Lijuan laughed: "At noon, we saw you from a distance, but we didn't dare to go over and disturb you."

Liu Chuxue was somewhat puzzled: "Noon, at the cafeteria?"

Ma Lijuan nodded with a smile: "Yes."

Through their conversation, Liu Chuxue learned that Sister-in-law Gong, the wife of Deputy Regiment Commander Gong, had a job in the city and only came over on weekends; her son and daughter also lived with her in the city, and this Sunday the school organized a farming activity, so they didn't come back to the family compound with her.

Ma Lijuan explained: "The children didn't come back today, so we thoroughly cleaned the house; at noon we didn't cook, and went straight to the cafeteria to eat."

"Where do you work, Sister-in-law?"

"I work at the Tax Bureau near Dongzhimen."

"Oh, then we aren't far apart."

Ma Lijuan was somewhat confused; her husband had mentioned at noon that Deputy Regiment Commander Fu's fiancée was from the countryside in Changping, so what did she mean by that remark.

Seeing her reaction, Liu Chuxue understood what she was thinking, so she volunteered: "I work at the Rolling Steel Mill."

This piqued Ma Lijuan's interest: "Which department?"

Liu Chuxue didn't hide it: "The Finance Office."

Hearing she was in the Finance Office, Ma Lijuan asked: "Which section?"

Hearing her question, Liu Chuxue thought, could the Rolling Steel Mill fall under their jurisdiction? But she still answered: "Under Section Chief Li of Section One."

Ma Lijuan looked regretful: "We coordinate work with your factory's Section Two."

After learning that Liu Chuxue had a formal job in the city, Ma Lijuan became even more enthusiastic, telling her about the situation in the family compound, especially the difficult and trouble-seeking family members there; she told her about all of them: "Although you might not live in the family compound often in the future, just like me, you still need to know these things."

Liu Chuxue only smiled and said nothing, after all, she and Fu Yan Cheng were not yet married.

From this conversation along the way, Liu Chuxue could see that although Sister-in-law Gong, the wife of Deputy Regiment Commander Gong, was a nice person, she was not as sincere as Sister-in-law Tao whom she met on the bus before coming.

She probably told her so much to help her husband win over Fu Yan Cheng, and secondly, because she knew Liu Chuxue had a job, so she talked a bit more; this could be seen from her eyes.

Since gaining the Space, she could always sense which people interacting with her were sincere, which were insincere, and even which held hostility toward her.

The feeling this Sister-in-law Gong gave her was that she was someone to befriend, but not to befriend deeply.

Chatting all the way, they soon entered the city; the two got off the bus together, took the same bus again, agreed to visit each other more often in the future, and got off the bus one after the other.

As soon as she got off, she saw Duan Ruirui standing not far away talking to a male comrade, and it felt like there were rainbow bubbles between them; it seemed the Red Phoenix Star was stirring.

She couldn't help but feel happy for Duan Ruirui; after all, given her current situation, the ultimate solution would probably rely on marriage to change things.

Not wanting to disturb the two, she went around to the other side of the road and would come back near the factory gate; when she returned to the dormitory, she saw Ji Kunlan was there too: "What's going on, why are you back in the dormitory so early?"

Ji Kunlan looked mysteriously: "Did you encounter anything when you came back?"